Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-10-13
DAKOTA ITEMS.

QllnDeT dDUut -uo,
A man at Fargo recently MADE 4 ooo
pound switZer cheese.
Buildings are being moved from nee
Heights to Highmore,
One thousand men will work IN one
tin mine IN the Black Hills.
Jamestown is to have Waterworks,
electric light and civil service flags.
Fargo and Bismarck coal dealers VIII
give 1000 pounds to a ton hereafter.
Groton has five elevators and expects
to ship over 100000 bushels of gram
this fall.
The Elk Point Blizzard has been re-
vived. 1t is now published by Stephen
son Bros.
The November term OF the United
States court at Yankton, it is thought,
will be a long one.
A regular organized society of the
White Cross with a complete set OF
officers has been established at ank-
ton.
1t is announced that the grade OF the
Cherokee and Dakota railroad Will be
completed to Sioux Falls by the goth OF
this month.
Hot Springs, Custer and Spring Val
ley are candidates for the location OF
the Methodist college to be established
in the Hills.
The trustees of the Yankton insane
asylum have approved the plans for the
additions, drawn by Architect Dow OF
Sioux Falls.
Prof. Homer l.. Sprague has accepted
the presidency of the North Dakota
university, and will commence his la
bors at once.
Col. b. f. Campbell, of Sioux Falls,
is to be Dakota's representative IN the
Grand Army council Of administration
for next year.
The Duluth railroad company have
selected the site for their depots at
Sioux Fails, the location being on the
west side of the river.
Rev. L. E. Holp, the eloquent pastor
of the Congregational church at Sioux
Falls, has resigned to accept the pastor
ate of Minneapolis church,
Sioux Falls has decided that it will
not make any effort to get the Skinner
Manufacturing company. 1t IS no
.l,,,r A T
1t is reported upon good authority
that Frank Pettigrew will clean up
100000 as the result of his summers
speculation in Sioux Falls dirt.
A. Polack & Co., an extensive cloth
firm, doing business at Huron, Omaha
and Cheyenne, have closed their DOORS
The liabilities are said to be $4,000.
Prof. Montgomery has for the present
finished eXcavating the mounds around
Devils Lake. Sixty skeletons and nu-
merous articles of pottery have been
found,
The residence of Theos David, six
miles north OF Mitchell, was destroyed
, |
$4,000, with insurance of about half
that amount.
F, President McLouth, of the Brookings
, Agricultural college, says NJ. V. Miller,
of the board of trustees, did not take
: away any of the funds of the college
! when he left the territory.
= The Dakota Mutual Life Insurance
f company of Sioux Fails, organized by
+ John ID. Cameron has become defunct
r 1t met with $1,000 loss, and had only
q S59 in the treasury to meet the same.
/ Gov. Church has appointed Antor
e Olans. jr,, Of jamestown to fill the va
S cancy on his staff occasioned by The
e removal Of Brown, Of Grand Forks
e No successor to Webb or Lewis ha:
= been appointed.
i The Aberdeen, Bismarck and North
, western road has about completed it
% work for the season. The grade il
T. practically finished from the corporate
a limits Of Aberdeen to Bismarck. Th
q company has nearly closed its arrange
le ments tor right-of-way through Aber
deen.
III On complaint of w. J. Hawk, 0
~ Buffalo, Division superintendent Gra
, ~ ham. of the Dakota division OF tn
- Northern Pacific, has been arrested
80 80 charged with violating the inter-stat
=. ~ law in refusing to furnish cars for tn
shipment of wheat and discriminatin
~ in favor of the elevators.
,r- Those portions OF the territory whic
20 suffered from drought to the damag
nd OF crops last summer, report the groun
H. in better condition for fall plowin
as than for four years past. The late sun
Es mer rains thoroughly saturated tt
i'll ground, which is regarded as an assu
inf ance of a good crop next year..
The annual report of the commits
ioner Of pensions shows that 1897 e
soldiers residents of Dakota, are dra,
zee ing pensions from the general Cover
,ok ment, the quarterly total of paymen
made them being $lO2,45S49. Dako
: stands twenty-first in the list of stat
!, = and territories in its number of pc
si0ners.
w. L. Smith tried to commit suici
W at Fargo recently. He paid a M
'no twenty-five cents to hang him. We
to the barn found a rope. and VIII
ller about ready to commit the deed,
'ois assistant went to saloon for a dri
and did not return. Smith then we
the to his room, secured dose OF morphi
veil and placed it in some whiskey. Beft
old he could drink it the proprietor of
,ea- hotel broke into his room and took
ak away.
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